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ArticleViruses2017

Zika Virus Exhibits Lineage-Specific Phenotypes in Cell Culture, in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes, and in an Embryo Model.

Katherine A Willard, Leah Demakovsky, Blanka Tesla, Forrest T Goodfellow, Steven L Stice, Courtney C Murdock, Melinda A Brindley

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Article in Viruses, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katherine A WillardDepartment of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. kwillard@uga.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0044-2664
Leah DemakovskyDepartment of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. lrdemako@gmail.com.
Blanka TeslaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. btesla@uga.edu.
Forrest T GoodfellowDepartment of Animal and Dairy Science, Regenerative Bioscience Center, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. forrestgoodfellow@gmail.com.
Steven L SticeDepartment of Animal and Dairy Science, Regenerative Bioscience Center, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. sstice@uga.edu.
Courtney C MurdockDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Odum School of Ecology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Center for Tropical Emerging and Global Diseases, Center for Ecology of Infectious Diseases, Center for Vaccines and Immunology, Riverbasin Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. cmurdock@uga.edu.
Melinda A BrindleyDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Department of Population Health, Center for Vaccines and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. mbrindle@uga.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4929-8085
University of Georgia · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Zika virus (ZIKV) has quietly circulated in Africa and Southeast Asia for the past 65 years. However, the recent ZIKV epidemic in the Americas propelled this mosquito-borne virus to the forefront of flavivirus research. Based on historical evidence, ZIKV infections in Africa were sporadic and caused mild symptoms such as fever, skin rash, and general malaise. In contrast, recent Asian-lineage ZIKV infections in the Pacific Islands and the Americas are linked to birth defects and neurological disorders. The aim of this study is to compare replication, pathogenicity, and transmission efficiency of two historic and two contemporary ZIKV isolates in cell culture, the mosquito host, and an embryo model to determine if genetic variation between the African and Asian lineages results in phenotypic differences. While all tested isolates replicated at similar rates in Vero cells, the African isolates displayed more rapid viral replication in the mosquito C6/36 cell line, yet they exhibited poor infection rates in

Indexed as

Biological Variation, PopulationAedesAnimalsCell LineChick EmbryoChlorocebus aethiopsDisease Models, AnimalGenotypeModels, BiologicalSurvival AnalysisZika VirusZika Virus InfectionAedes aegyptiflavivirusvector-borne diseasevector competenceviral evolutionzika virus

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PMID29258204
PMCPMC5744157
OpenAlexW2777458426

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